USPTO Patents Application 10807009

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Black A.; Taylor, P,: CHATR: a generic speech synthesis system" in
Proceedings of COLING74. II p. 83-986. Kyoto, 1994

Haller. S. Fossum. T.: 'The Association Between Subject Matter and Discourse Segmentation", In
The Proceedings of the Florida Al Research Symposium, Key West, FL, May 2001.

Long, S. ; Kooper. R.;Abowd, G.: Atkeson, C, "Rapid Prototyping of Mobile Context-Aware
Applications: the CyberGuide Case Study", in the Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Intemational
Conferenece on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'96). pp. 97-107. November 10-12, 1996.

Shriberg., E.; Stoike, A.; Hakkani-Tur, Dilek; Tur, Gokhan, "Prosody-Based Automatic Segmentation of
Speech Utterances into Sentences and Topics'* in Speech Communication. 2000. 32, 1-2. Sept, pp.
127-154.

Stolcke.. A.; Schriberg, E.; Bates. R.; Coccaro N.; Jurafsky. D.; Martin. R.; Meteer. M.; Ries, K.; Taylor, P.; Van Ess-Dykema, C. "Dialog Act
Modeling for Conversational Speech" in Applying Machine Learning to Discourse Processing. Papers from the 1998 AAAI Spring Symposium,
Technical Report SS-98-01 (J. Chu-Carroll et al. eds.) Stanford CA pp. 98-105. AAAI Press, MenIo Park CA. 1998

Wrede, B.; Schriberg, E., "Spotting 'HotSpots' in Meetings: Human
Judgments and Prosdic Cues" in Proc. Eurospeech, Geneva , 2003.

Levow. G.. "Prosodic Cues to Discourse Segment Boundaries in IHuman-Computer Dialogue**, In
5th SIGdiai Worl^shop on Discourse and Dialogue Boston, April 30 and May 1, 2004.

Lascarides, A. and Oberlander, J.. "Temporal Coherence and Defeasible Knowledge".
Theoretical Linguistics. 19.1. pp. 1-35. Walter de Gruyter. Berlin. New York, 1993.

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